Contact CUSD Board Members

Posted on | January 14, 2013 | No Comments

Sample Letter to School Board Members

Opening Sage Creek High School next year would not serve the best interests of the Carlsbad community. The fiscal crisis has already led to much larger class sizes, cuts to valuable programs,  lost school days, the closure and relocation of one school and the leasing out of part of another. Unfortunately, the economic outlook for the state and district is not improving. 

CUSD faces a deficit of $5 million for the 2013-14 school year, 60% of which is budgeted to open Sage Creek High. In other words, CUSD would need to cut 7.2 days next year just to pay for it. Although this alone is an unacceptably high price tag,  it still would not be enough to close the overall budget deficit the district faces. 

The good news is that Prop P funds were also used to rebuild and completely modernize CHS, allowing it to more than comfortably accommodate all high school students in the district for the foreseeable future.

 As a democratically elected body, the Board of Trustees must provide leadership and represent the best interests of its constituents. This includes diligently monitoring the district’s finances.  Given the absolute certainty that we are facing a budget crisis that was unimaginable when Prop. P was passed, I call upon the Board of Trustees to delay the opening of Sage Creek High. To do anything less would harm the students in the district and be a breach of public trust. 

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If you agree, please forward the above letter in whole or part to the Board of Trustees (See their e-mail addresses below. ) as well as your Carlsbad contacts.    

For more information, please visit www.delaysagecreek.com .  Be sure to like “Delay Sage Creek” on Facebook to indicate your support for fiscal restraint and to receive the latest updates about the effort to delay the opening of Sage Creek High. 

Sage Creek High School Update ~ January 14, 2013

Posted on | January 14, 2013 | No Comments

Fellow CUTA Members,

 Here are some interesting tidbits of information:

• CUSD still receives $1.69 million for K-3 Classs Size Reduction.  With the flexibility allowed in spending these funds, is opening SCHS more of a priority than having smaller class sizes in grades K-3?
• All of last year’s pink slipped teachers were returned to the classroom.  Even temporary teachers have been rehired/hired.
• John Roach has been hired as a consultant by Fagen, Friedman, & Fulfrost ~ the attorney group that will be representing the district at the bargaining table. http://www.fagenfriedman.com/page.php?id=123&preview=true
• AOE is not a closed campus at its main entry, putting students and staff of both AOE & AOM in an extremely vulnerable position.  Portable classrooms at Pac Rim and AOE do not have blinds on their windows; the students and staff are not able to fully comply with safety procedures in a lockdown situation.  Spending on student safety should be a district priority.
• We are projected to take a 12% paycut next year based on the district’s current deficit spending and the opening of SCHS.  That equals one of your paychecks.
• After analyzing the Prop P language, there appears to be no legal grounds or legal point for a lawsuit in the event the opening of SCHS is delayed.  There are no pending lawsuits, and no credible threat of a lawsuit has been made to date.
• Most school districts will be expected in 2013-14 to receive greater support from the state.  However, Carlsbad Unified is a Basic Aid district and our fair share cuts lag a year behind reductions applied to other school districts.  Therefore CUSD should expect another significant fair share cut in 2013 -14 with that amount determined within the next few months unless this law is amended. Future increased state funding (or decreased state reductions) for Basic Aids should mirror improvements to everyone else a year afterwards. In short, the fiscal turnaround coming to other school districts may arrive to CUSD in 2014-15.  With this in mind, and a predicted $6.5 million deficit for 2013-14, it’s incumbent upon CUSD to make responsible, constrained spending decisions which do not worsen already large class sizes, program cutbacks, fewer resources, and less instructional days throughout every school.

 Get Involved:

• Use the form letter to email board members.
• Attend this Wednesday’s school board meeting at 6:00 p.m. at the DO.  Wear your school spirit shirt!
• Sign the petition to delay SCHS ~ see your site rep or CAT team leader.
• Fill out the CUTA Bargaining Survey @ https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/X6S8HSH
• Post updates from www.delaysagecreek.com on your Facebook page or send updates to family/friends/community members in Carlsbad.

In unity,

Sally Estep Micksch

CUTA President

Summary of Governor Brown’s Budget Proposal

Posted on | January 14, 2013 | No Comments

Sage Creek High School ~ Bad for ALL Carlsbad Students

Posted on | January 8, 2013 | No Comments

With the district’s pot of money having become much smaller our school board is opening an unnecessary new high school, Sage Creek, at a great expense to student learning, as well as our contract and jobs.  With the district budget barely able to meet current spending and student needs, launching Sage Creek will empty this smaller pot of money by an extra $1.5 million for the site’s first year of initial enrollment alone.

We are being asked to divide Carlsbad High into two schools which drains and strains even further our limited resources to provide a quality education for all students.

Bad for Students

* Students will have fewer courses and programs to choose from.

Presently, students may choose from the entire array of programs and teachers Carlsbad High has to offer.  Money however, is simply not available to replicate all of the programs for both high schools.

* Students will not experience lower class sizes. 

The only way to reduce class size is to hire more teachers; this alone is difficult given our current slashed budget.  Our present very large class sizes throughout the school district are due to a shortage of teachers, not space.

* Students may receive less personalized attention. 

Not only will teachers wrestle with bigger class sizes, but will likely need to teach additional subjects often outside our areas of expertise and experience.  Each additional subject requires more planning time, thus leaving less time to assist students.

* Students will receive less service from support staff. 

Many of our support staff have already taken on extra responsibilities because of previous reductions in positions.  This will only become worse with even fewer staff members available at each school.

* Students will experience greater deterioration of the physical surroundings.

Under the present tight budget our classrooms are not being regularly cleaned, restrooms are less than ideally maintained, and physical settings are deteriorating even in the newest buildings.

* Student will lose one very good high school for two lesser high schools.

Carlsbad High provides a comprehensive education and can accommodate any future growth in student enrollment, especially with the recent renovations.

An additional high school and a smaller pot of money will compromise the quality of student learning and opportunities from kindergarten through high school.  With a budget already scraping to get by, students from the most vulnerable to the highest achieving will be the ones paying for Sage Creek with larger class sizes, fewer programs, less resources, trimmed support, diminished personal attention, and reduced instructional days.

Bad for Teachers

If the impact on our students isn’t bad enough for us committed to making a difference in kids’ lives, the school board will likely increase demands for teachers to take further pay cuts, decreased benefits, heavier workloads, and demoralizing pink slips.

We know buildings don’t teach students, teachers do. CUTA will be asking members in unity to participate in organizing activities and community outreach in demanding the school board make students their first priority too.

CUTA Speech to the School Board ~ June 13, 2012

Posted on | June 13, 2012 | No Comments

Dear Fellow CUTA Members,

Thank you to the teachers who came out to support CUTA, especially our retirees who were honored tonight by the district.  We are thankful for their years of service and wish them the best in their future endeavors.

The board is expected to vote on contract ratification on June 27.  That is also the date when RIF notices will likely start to be rescinded.  Depending on the high school scheduling, we expect to bring back all but about 5 of our teachers.  Hopefully, possible retirements and increased enrollment will have all of our teachers back sooner than later.  No matter what, all RIF’d teachers should file for unemployment this Saturday.  http://eapply4ui.edd.ca.gov .

Please remember to vote for the contract ratification by Friday afternoon.  See your site rep.

For those of you who don’t know, Devin Vodicka was named as the Superintendent of Vista Schools.  He will be sorely missed, and we wish him the best.

http://www.nctimes.com/news/local/vista/vista-carlsbad-school-official-to-be-vista-unified-s-new/article_7a6011e8-4261-5b2b-809d-644c2cebd02d.html

 Our new superintendent, Suzette Lovely, spoke to the board tonight.  I’ve had the opportunity to speak with her by phone, and I am hopeful this new chapter in Carlsbad’s history will be a positive one under her leadership. 

Stay strong and united!  And have a peaceful and restful summer ~ you deserve it.

 In unity,

 Sally Estep

CUTA President

 

Good Evening

I stand in front of you today, in front of our whole community, one of the proudest women I know.  To be able, finally, to look you all in the eye and celebrate an anticipated ratification of the tentative agreement the negotiating teams of CUTA and CUSD collectively created and collectively bring to our respective stakeholders—is an accomplishment we all feared might not happen.  And yet, here we are.

I have to give credit to CUTA’s bargaining team ~ they were steadfast in their determination to get a fair contract settlement respecting our students and their teachers.  And I’d also like to thank the district bargaining team for the respectful manner in which negotiations were handled. Both sides listened and both sides looked for solutions.  And, of course, we are grateful for the patience the Carlsbad community showed as we worked through this trying process.

We are now hopeful for subsequent negotiations.  We are hopeful that we can, together, move forward as a cohesive unit, all dedicated to the betterment and education of our students.  We are hopeful that we can, together, battle this fiscal tidal wave encroaching on public education.  We are hopeful that we can, together, restore Carlsbad schools to the beacon they have been and should be once again.

And so, with a collective sigh of relief and hopeful anticipation, I will sign off for the last time this school year as I have ended all our communications:  In Unity.

Have a wonderful summer break.

Full Tentative Agreement

Posted on | June 11, 2012 | No Comments

Tentative Agreement between CUTA & CUSD

2012-2013 Contract

• The  parties will  maintain the current contract with the following modifications:
• To help resolve what is at this time a projected fiscal deficit of $2,207,797 million dollars in 2012-2013 ,  CUTA total compensation would need to be reduced by $1,526,333 effective 7/1/12.  However, the parties agree to address the projected fiscal deficit as described below.
• Calculation: $2,207,797 x .6913 = $1,526,250
• Apply Blue Shield Credit of $260,266 = $1,265,984
• As of May 1, 2012, the cost of 1% is $391,026.  The cost of 1 day is $212,069.  As a percentage reduction, the CUTA share calculates to 3.24%.  In furlough days, 5.97 would be needed to achieve the necessary savings.
• CUSD will identify $212,069 in unrestricted funds.  Applying these dollars reduces the necessary reduction to the equivalent of 5 days.  This will result in a total savings of $1,060,345.  As a percentage, that results in a 2.71% pay cut for the 2012-13 school year.  This is equivalent to five (5) unpaid furlough days.  Effective July 1, 2013, the July 1, 2011 CUTA salary schedule in Appendix A shall be automatically restored (184 workdays; 194 workdays). 
• There will be 5 unpaid furlough days for 2012-13.  Two of those will be non-instructional days and three (3) days will be instructional days. Credit for the first non-instructional day will be the elimination of the seven (7) extended staff meetings described in Article 7.3 and the other non-instructional day will be the staff development day at the beginning of the school year (August 24) for 2012-13 only.  The instructional furlough days will be October 8, February 14, and May 24.
• The parties have agreed that CUTA’s portion of the remaining Blue Shield credit will no longer be available to partially-offset anticipated premium increases in 2013.  The CUTA portion of this credit is $260,226. 
• As a result of the adjustments described above, the total CUTA savings is equal to $1,320,611 (5 days x $212,069 = $1,060,345 + Blue Shield Credit of $260,266).
• Both parties agree to the above terms contingent upon the restoration language specified below:
• If Carlsbad Unified’s unrestricted subtotal Revenue Limit Sources Revenue, object codes 8010-8089, and unrestricted total Other State Revenue, object codes 8300-8599, for 2011-12 in the September 2011-12 Unaudited Actuals Financial Report is higher than projected in the April 2011-12 Third Interim Financial Report ($63,912,214), then 55.6% of every additional dollar shall be used to restore compensation cuts in 2012-13 equal to five furlough days and the Blue Shield Credit of $260,266.
• Initially, up to three mutually agreed upon non-instructional staff development furlough days or hours shall be restored.  Subsequently, up to two mutually agreed upon instructional furlough days shall be restored.  If the conditions indicate an opportunity for restoration, these adjustments shall be determined no later than the last day of October 2012 and again by the last day of February 2013.  Nothing in this agreement shall preclude more frequent consultations if and when conditions change.  Once all five furlough days have been restored, then the Blue Shield Credit shall be restored to reduce CUTA health care costs.
• The cost of restoring one furlough day is equal to $_______ (1).  The cost of restoring one furlough hour is equal to one furlough day divided by 7.5 hours.  The cost of restoring the Blue Shield Credit is $260,266.
• (1)The cost of one furlough day shall be determined by multiplying .54% times the sum total of salaries on the CUTA Salary Schedule placements as of the 2012 September payroll,  plus the percentage of the Labor Related Costs of STRS, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, and Worker’s Comp.
• If Carlsbad Unified’s unrestricted subtotal Revenue Limit Sources Revenue, object codes 8010-8089, and unrestricted total Other State Revenue, object codes 8300-8599, for 2012-13 in the September 2012-13 Unaudited Actuals Financial Report is higher than projected in the April 2011-12 Third Interim Financial Report ($63,983,138), then 55.6% of every additional dollar shall be applied as a one time off salary schedule bonus (2) until all the outstanding 2012-13 compensation reduced through five furlough days and the Blue Shield Credit of $260,266 has been restored.  Bargaining unit members shall not be required to make up those furlough days.
• The total cost of restoring the 5 (five) furlough days as a one time off salary schedule bonus is equal to $_______ for each day (3).  The cost of restoring the Blue Shield Credit is $260,266.  Once all five furlough days have been restored, then the Blue Shield Credit shall be restored to reduce CUTA health care costs.
• (2)  The higher than projected revenue amount allocated to CUTA shall be divided by the sum total of salaries on the CUTA salary schedule placements as of the 2013 September payroll  for a one time off salary schedule bonus.  The sum of this one time off salary schedule bonus shall not exceed the outstanding 2012-13 compensation reduced through five furlough days and the Blue Shield Credit.  The outstanding amount shall be determined by subtracting any dollar value of any previous restorations of the total compensation cuts.
• (3)The cost of each one of the five furlough days shall be determined by multiplying .54% times the total sum of salaries on the CUTA Salary Schedule placements as of the 2013 September payroll,  plus the percentage of the Labor Related Costs of STRS, Medicare, Unemployment Insurance, and Worker’s Comp. 

 

• To prepare for potential midyear reductions in 2012-13, both parties agree to reopen negotiations within 10 working days of the November 6 election.

 

• Effective 7/1/12, for the duration of this agreement (automatic reinstatement on 7/1/2013):
• Adjust Article 18.2 to read:
•  For the 2012-2013 school year, the District will employ sufficient number of regular classroom teachers in grades K-8 not to exceed a ratio of 32-1 total general education classroom teachers to total general education students on a District-wide basis (i.e. total general education student count divided by total general education teacher count = 32). 
• For the 2012-2013 school year, the District will employ sufficient number of regular classroom teachers in grades 9-12 not to exceed a ratio of 38.5-1 total general education classroom teachers to total general education students on a District-wide basis (i.e. total general education student count divided by total general education teacher count = 38.5). 
• Adjust Article 7.13 Elementary Prep Time
• Move paragraph about enrichment classes and lunch time above the sentence about permission from the site administrator
• Add: Teachers will be released from enrichment classes such as Music, Art, and Physical Education when a certificated teacher is providing instruction and supervision of the students.  When released, the classroom teacher shall have preparation time.
• Effective 7/1/12 (Not retroactive):
• CUTA pays 100% of the up to 60% presidential release time
• Combined BA/MA Credits
• 12.3.2    The minimum requirements for initial placement or advancement to Column II are:
• 12.3.2.1  The possession of an earned Bachelor’s Degree from a regionally accredited college or university earned concurrently with an appropriate California Teaching or Services Credential, or
• 12.3.2.2   The possession of an earned Bachelor’s Degree and thirty (30) or more upper division or graduate semester credits earned subsequent to the Bachelor’s Degree from a regionally accredited college or university and an appropriate California Teaching or Services Credential.
• Semester credits must meet the criteria set forth in Paragraph 6.
• 12.3.2.1  shall apply to current employees, and column advancement (horizontal movement) shall be made accordingly
• Side letter for opening year and subsequent two years of Sage Creek High School
• Phase 1: Post openings district-wide for department chairs to solicit letters of interest.  Any interested bargaining unit member with appropriate credentials shall be interviewed for the vacancy.  A CUTA representative shall serve on the interview panel.  CUSD administration will make final decisions regarding department chairs.  The final determination shall take into account the impact on all sites as staffing decisions are made.
• Phase 2: Post openings district-wide for teacher vacancies.  Any interested bargaining unit member with appropriate credentials shall be interviewed for the vacancy.  Department chairs shall serve as members of the interview panels.  CUSD administration will make final decisions regarding teacher selections, again taking into account the impact on all sites as part of the process. 
• Phase 3: Recruitment for remaining vacancies shall occur through additional postings and with the assistance of staff members selected in Phase 1 and 2 if needed.  Repeat process described in Phase 2.
• Phase 4: In the event that an involuntary transfer is necessary, district seniority will be the tie-breaking criteria with the least senior bargaining unit member being transferred first.  However, the Assistant Superintendent of Personnel reserves the right to skip individual seniority under exceptional circumstances.  Rationale for the exception shall be shared with the CUTA President and shall remain confidential.  
• CUSD agrees to rescind all layoff notices other than those needed based on the following Board Approved reductions:
• Increase class-size at CHS to staffing ratio of 38.5 to 1
• Decrease CVA teachers to 4.0 FTE
• Elimination of 1.0 Librarian
• Elimination of .4 FTE Psychologist

Bargaining ~ June 7, 2012

Posted on | June 7, 2012 | No Comments

Today the CUTA and CUSD bargaining teams met for 3 hours.  We meet again Monday at 9:00 a.m.  At this time we cannot share any details.  However, please be prepared to picket next Wednesday before the board meeting.  Your CAT team leader will be sharing details with you!

 In unity,

Your Bargaining Team

Bargaining Update ~ June 6, 2012

Posted on | June 6, 2012 | No Comments

Dear Fellow CUTA Members,

Today the CUTA and CUSD bargaining teams met for 9 hours.  We meet again tomorrow at noon.  At this time we cannot share any details.  However, please be prepared to picket next Wednesday before the board meeting.

In unity,

Your Bargaining Team

Bargaining Update part 2 ~ June 1, 2012

Posted on | June 3, 2012 | No Comments

Some questions came in today that we believe the answers to would be helpful for all members to know.

1.  What was the district’s proposal on Friday?

• There was very little difference from the district’s previous offer on May 22.  The change made was to contract language we had presented for protecting elementary teacher prep time.

• Their latest proposal can be seen at: http://cutanews.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/SCAN0006.jpg

2.  What is the combined BA/MA credits?

• Most credential programs are completed after the completion of a Bachelor’s Degree, so a teacher usually has a Bachelor’s Degree plus 30 units.  This allows most teachers hired to start in Column 2 on our pay scale.  However, there are a few programs (CSUSM to name one) that have prospective teachers earning a Bachelor’s Degree and a teaching credential concurrently.  The credential is not in addition to, rather part of the Bachelor’s Degree, even though additional units are taken over and above the Bachelor’s Degree.  Because of this concurrent program, teachers hired with a concurrent program credential are only able to start in Column 1. 

• Both CUSD and CUTA recognize both programs require the same number of courses and because of the way our contract reads, one is paid at a higher rate than the other.  This new language is an effort to place equal value on both programs.

• CUTA’s Proposed Language:
  • 12.3.2    The minimum requirements for initial placement or advancement to Column II are:12.3.2.1  The possession of an earned Bachelor’s Degree from a regionally accredited college or university earned concurrently with an appropriate California Teaching or Services Credential, or

    12.3.2.2   The possession of an earned Bachelor’s Degree and thirty (30) or more upper division or graduate semester credits earned subsequent to the Bachelor’s Degree from a regionally accredited college or university and an appropriate California Teaching or Services Credential.

    Semester credits must meet the criteria set forth in Paragraph 6.

    12.3.2.1  shall apply to current employees, and column advancement (horizontal movement) shall be made accordingly.

3.  Should CUTA hire a forensic auditor/accountant to review CUSD’s finances?  Would it uncover money needed for a contract settlement?

• At least five times each year a school district submits their budget for examination to the County Offices of Education. Likewise a school district’s budget is independently audited (hence the “unaudited actuals” before the “audited actuals”). CUSD’s independent auditor has been Wilkinson, Hadley King, & Co. Because of ongoing oversight throughout the year very little to no difference is discovered between the “unauditeds” and the audited. The union and the state therefore both lean on the “unauditeds” as accurate.

• Familiarity with the numbers lets us cut through, frankly, administrative bunkum. In answer to our evaluation of its budget during contract negotiations, CUSD has clarified that it’s not the district’s inability to pay, but its unwillingness.  So when we’re finished taking in the budget numbers, deliberating over its future assumptions, and organizing in union solidarity, we always return to the maxim; we’re bargaining priorities. We hold students & teachers first.

cuta bargaining update ~ june 1, 2012

Posted on | June 3, 2012 | No Comments

On Friday, your CUTA Bargaining Team met with the district bargaining team and was presented with a proposal from the district.  The district proposal still had 7 furlough days.  When questioned, the district stated it was not an inability to pay $200,000 to bridge the gap in furlough days, rather an unwillingness to pay.

The bargaining team and district members then worked together to build a conceptual framework for the the Sage Creek High School transfer language. We included the language in the proposal we presented to them before the end of the bargaining session on Friday (see below).

We still have yet to receive from them the financial information we have been asking for at the last couple bargaining sessions.

OUR COLLECTIVE VOICE IS POWERFUL!  Please continue to share the CUTA Parent Flyer with members of the community.

The next bargaining date is this Wednesday, June 6. Your support is greatly appreciated by your bargaining team.  Remember, our strength comes from our unity.  Keep up the great work, Carlsbad teachers!

CUTA Package Proposal 9

June 1, 2012

1.     Change number of 3D days from 3 to 5

• 3 consecutive days maximum at any time during school year except weeks attached to Thanksgiving, Winter, and Spring Breaks & beginning and end of school year (no cost to CUSD) * We moved from 4 consecutive days to 3 consecutive days.

2.    Permanently change 7.13 due to permanent loss of income from furlough days and it’s good for teachers and students

• Move the paragraphs about enrichment classes and lunch time to above the sentence about permission from site administrator.
• Current contract language is, “Teachers will be released from enrichment classes such as Music, Art and Physical Education when a certificated teacher is providing instruction and supervision of the students.”  Add this to contract language ~ The administrator may require the classroom teacher to assist the enrichment class teacher with classroom management no more than 2 times in a school year.  If classroom management continues to be an issue, it is the site administrator’s responsibility to work with the enrichment teacher to develop a more effective classroom management plan.

3.    Mutually conceived and agreed upon voluntary/involuntary transfer language MOU for the opening year and the subsequent two years of Sage Creek High School.

• Phase 1 ~ Selection of Sage Creek Department Chairs, Counselors, and other bargaining unit members serving on the Core Team.
  • Clear posting of openings through a variety of media ~ District emails to all certificated members; paper copy in each certificated member’s box; posting on district website; announcement at staff meeting
  • Any appropriately credentialed bargaining unit member may apply and shall be granted a formal interview
  • A CUTA Representative shall serve on the interview and selection panel
• Phase 2 ~ Volunteers for Vacancies
  • Clear posting of bargaining unit vacancies through a variety of media ~ District emails to all certificated members; paper copy in each certificated member’s box; posting on district website; announcement at staff meeting
  • Any appropriately credentialed bargaining unit member may apply and shall be granted a formal interview
  • Core Team shall be members of the interview and selection panel
  • Impact on CHS & other sites shall be considered in the selection of volunteers
• Phase 3 ~ Recruitment for Remaining Vacancies
  • Clear posting of vacancies through a variety of media ~ District emails to all certificated members; paper copy in each certificated member’s box; posting on district website; announcement at staff meeting
  • Any appropriately credentialed bargaining unit member may apply and shall be granted a formal interview
  • Core team and newly designated transfers shall help recruit, interview, and select remaining vacancies
  • Impact on CHS & other sites shall be considered in the recruitment of remaining vacancies
• Phase 4 ~ Involuntary Transfers
  • In the event that an involuntary transfer is necessary, district seniority will be the tie breaking criteria, with the least senior bargaining unit member being transferred first.  However, under exceptional individual circumstances, the Assistant Superintendent of Personnel reserves the right to skip that individual’s seniority.  Rationale for the exception shall be shared with the CUTA President and shall remain confidential.

4.    Combined credential/BA credits (conceptually agreed upon)

5.    Based on currently total general fund revenue and expenditure assumptions, CUTA agrees to take with mutually agreed upon restoration language:

• 5 student contact furlough days in 2012-2013
• Mutually agreed upon dates
• $2.2 M ~ Budget Deficit
• -  .1 M ~ Tax Revenue Increase
• -  .1 M ~ Potential CVA Savings
• -  .16M ~ Deficit Reduction Reserve
• -  .37 M ~ Blue Shield Credit
• $1.47 M x 0.691 = $1.02 M ~ CUTA Fair Share
•                              ÷ 0.212 CpFD
  
•   4.8 FD

6.    CUTA agrees to pay 100% of presidential release. (conceptually agreed upon)

• CUTA may extend the presidential release time to 60%.

7.    CUTA agrees to reopen negotiations on November 27, 2012 immediately following Thanksgiving Break.

8.    Upon agreement to the above items, CUSD agrees to rescind all layoff notices other than those needed based on board approved reductions (CHS class size, CVA, librarian, psychologist)

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Sage Creek High School Facts

*The start-up costs coupled with the first year opening of Sage Creek High School is equivalent to 7.5 teacher furlough days or 27 teacher jobs.

*If Sage Creek is opened students will lose.
*Course offerings, elective choices, sports, clubs, and school activities will all be reduced.
*Class sizes will be increased
*There will be fewer teachers
*Teachers will have less time to support students.
*Opening Sage Creek harms students.

*The bond to building Sage Creek High School was passed in 2005 under a very different economy.
*As a Basic Aid district it was believed that the Carlsbad School District would have the funding to operate two boutique high schools
*Those funding assumptions proved to be wrong.
*Growth projections for high school enrollment were between 3800 and 4400.
*The growth in student population never occurred.
*It was believed that Carlsbad High School was overcrowded.
*Today Carlsbad High has 3000 students and can accommodate students into the future.

*Why is the Board of Trustees insisting on opening Sage Creek High School? We do not need it, we cannot afford it, and most importantly it will harm students!

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